Vietnam and other American fantasies
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Vietnam and other American fantasies
（Culture, politics, and the Cold War）
University of Massachusetts Press, c2000
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Bibliographical references included in "Notes" : p. [203]-233
Includes index
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: hbk ISBN 9781558492790
Description
Written by a cultural historian, this text offers a wide-ranging exploration of the causes, meaning and continuing significance of the American war in Vietnam, arguing that the war was not a "mistake", or a "quagmire" but a defining event in global history.
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: pbk ISBN 9781558493322
Description
This work is a cultural history of the Vietnam War and its continuing impact upon contemporary American society. The author presents an investigation of how myths about the war evolved and why people depend on them to answer the confusing questions that have become the legacy of the war. Memories change and reconstruct the past, and in this text, the author argues that the American memory of Vietnam has left fact and experience behind so that what remains is myth and denial.
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